Egg retention in older chams

[Wuntu Menny]

My old veiled has had this problem for the past year. Every time she drops a clutch she retains a few eggs and I find them scattered through her cage over the next week or two. She laid a couple of weeks ago and the same thing has happened. I'm looking at her now and can see another egg just ahead of her pelvis waiting to be expelled.

Has anyone else experienced this? She is allowed adequate time for deposition and normally isn't removed from the nest bucket until she completes her backfilling. For this reason I'm quite sure that she feels her job is complete and she's not getting moved prematurely.

I don't remember if I've posed the Q here before, but I'm unable to search the forum and find out at the moment.

WM